Hi all, I just wanted to give you a link to the website of our Professor Adrienne Russell, in case you haven't found it yet and would like to read the additional informative postings and information available.
Also, I wanted to let you know that I finally got my DJ Spooky post published on the site if anyone is interested (it's down the list in May, when I had started it). It gives some highlights of his presentation, during which he discussed many things similar to what we've been doing in class, and it was really a nice supplement to our materials. I've got a link to a video of another one of his presentations, and though I don't have audio to check it, hopefully it is similar to the one he gave here. I had also forgotten to post that he did work with Lawrence Lessig, and discussed the idea of creative commons, saying "The laws and the way we live have parted ways."
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Not-so Lonely Planet
I have spent the last few days really working hard to plan my summer trip to Europe before my study abroad in Scotland starts and let me tell you it has been an adventure in itself. There are some really unhelpful sites that are a waste of time and cyberspace! However, there are some really great ones too. My new favorite is from the makers of the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The site features an incredible forum called the Thorn Tree that has tons of useful/interesting information from where to buy clothes to the best bars for bachelorette parties. This really exemplifies everything that we have talked about concerning collective intelligence in terms of travel. This site really seems to be a hybrid of other sites we've discussed in class combining elements of MeetUp.com through the Thorn Tree section, Expedia.com in the booking section, Amazon.com in the store section, Blogger.com in the travel blog section, and even YouTube in the video blogging section called Lonely Planet TV. The Bluelist feature is especially one to take a look at as it is completely self-catering to your personal tastes, another example of sites catering to niche markets. All I can say is that this site is awesome to view through the lens of everything we've learned about in class and even cooler to use. Don't miss this site if you are planning a trip or even just interested in travel!
Interesting article comparing gaming to the long tail in the internet
I thought this article on wired.com was really interesting because it compares the gaming and arcade world to the long tail that is described in the internet in this class. The article basically says that the games that aren't mega-hits in stores, are just as, if not more important than the super popular games.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/microsoft-dont.html
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/microsoft-dont.html
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Electronic Paper here to save trees
Epson has revealed its 13.4in electronic paper at SID 2008 in Los Angeles. Epson's largest electronic paper before was a 7.1in and now with a larger screen, it might actually bring use for some people to read newspapers on it. This is just a prototype, but hopefully they would bring this technology to consumers soon.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Ideas and topics to review for the final exam
Kids and SNS
Meet up
Joe Trippi
New media and political campaigns
Counter power (from Manuel Castell’s article)
Convergence Culture (the book)
Networked Public Culture and how it is manifest in different culture industries
The Long Tail
Participatory journalism
Journalism and blogging
Indymedia
OhMyNews
Wikipedia
Participatory panopticon
Sousveillance
“Free” by Chris Anderson
Meet up
Joe Trippi
New media and political campaigns
Counter power (from Manuel Castell’s article)
Convergence Culture (the book)
Networked Public Culture and how it is manifest in different culture industries
The Long Tail
Participatory journalism
Journalism and blogging
Indymedia
OhMyNews
Wikipedia
Participatory panopticon
Sousveillance
“Free” by Chris Anderson
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Homework 5/21
The "Free" reading by Chris Anderson link doesn't work. So here it is for all of you that actually do the reading. Anyways thought you guys might want the link. ~~Andrew
Thamus/Theuth
From our reading for tomorrow. "There will be few statements or scenes that will go unnoticed, or unremembered. Our day to day lives will be archived and saved. What’s more, these archives will be available over the net for recollection, analysis, even sharing." (Jamais Cascio)
Cascio was onto something, and that something has since manifested itself into what is known as lifelogging. Rachel Leow, a historian at Cambridge wrote an interesting blog on the subject. I'll share some snippets, but you can read the full thing (it's not long at all) right here.
"...People have been experimenting with lifelogging, going around with audiovisual cameras slung around their necks like slack nooses, recording every minute of their lives. ...Total documentation of a life; total recollection. ...Privacy and legal issues aside (a whole other can of worms)...on one hand it's a perfectly logical progression from flickr, blogging, vblogging, del.icio.us-ing, the endless meta-documentation that is happening in furious magnitude around us every day. On the other hand...what if the meta-documentation burgeons to the size of the documentation itself? What if e.g. my RSS feedreader aggregates the feeds from every single webpage on the internet and thus becomes the size of the internet itself -- what would be the point?
"...When the map is exactly the same size as the mapped -- when it will take us exactly as much time to 'recall' our lives as it does to live them -- when the sculpture is indistinguishable from the woman -- which is real, which is valuable, which is true? ...If we are precisely what we represent, is there anything left of ourselves; is there a self at all?
"...Faced with an infinite archive, how does one organize the search and selection of documents? Indeed, as with the internet and an internet-sized RSS, what would be the point? Lifelogging would turn history's heartbeat into a flatline -- every moment democratically equal to the next; white noise as valuable as Beethoven, and the damnable problem of historical selection amplified thousandfold...."
In Phaedrus, Plato told a story about the introduction of literacy in Egypt. Theuth, an old God, takes his new invention, literacy, to the King, Thamus. Theuth explains that his characters -- writing -- will make people wiser and give them more memory. Thamus argues that it will have the opposite effect. That it won't enable greater memory, but give the semblance of memory; literacy will only enable reminiscence, not memory.
A lot of people see a parallel between the development of literacy and the development of information technology. I think most of us would agree that writing and widespread literacy brought us out of the dark ages (of orality). But I'm not certain that technology, and with it, the capability of total recollection, will have the same effect. Which is to say that I'm simultaneously terrified and in awe of technology for the reasons explained by Rachel above, in probably the same way that people initially felt about writing. In other words, I'm more of a Thamus than a Theuth. How about you?
Cascio was onto something, and that something has since manifested itself into what is known as lifelogging. Rachel Leow, a historian at Cambridge wrote an interesting blog on the subject. I'll share some snippets, but you can read the full thing (it's not long at all) right here.
"...People have been experimenting with lifelogging, going around with audiovisual cameras slung around their necks like slack nooses, recording every minute of their lives. ...Total documentation of a life; total recollection. ...Privacy and legal issues aside (a whole other can of worms)...on one hand it's a perfectly logical progression from flickr, blogging, vblogging, del.icio.us-ing, the endless meta-documentation that is happening in furious magnitude around us every day. On the other hand...what if the meta-documentation burgeons to the size of the documentation itself? What if e.g. my RSS feedreader aggregates the feeds from every single webpage on the internet and thus becomes the size of the internet itself -- what would be the point?
"...When the map is exactly the same size as the mapped -- when it will take us exactly as much time to 'recall' our lives as it does to live them -- when the sculpture is indistinguishable from the woman -- which is real, which is valuable, which is true? ...If we are precisely what we represent, is there anything left of ourselves; is there a self at all?
"...Faced with an infinite archive, how does one organize the search and selection of documents? Indeed, as with the internet and an internet-sized RSS, what would be the point? Lifelogging would turn history's heartbeat into a flatline -- every moment democratically equal to the next; white noise as valuable as Beethoven, and the damnable problem of historical selection amplified thousandfold...."
In Phaedrus, Plato told a story about the introduction of literacy in Egypt. Theuth, an old God, takes his new invention, literacy, to the King, Thamus. Theuth explains that his characters -- writing -- will make people wiser and give them more memory. Thamus argues that it will have the opposite effect. That it won't enable greater memory, but give the semblance of memory; literacy will only enable reminiscence, not memory.
A lot of people see a parallel between the development of literacy and the development of information technology. I think most of us would agree that writing and widespread literacy brought us out of the dark ages (of orality). But I'm not certain that technology, and with it, the capability of total recollection, will have the same effect. Which is to say that I'm simultaneously terrified and in awe of technology for the reasons explained by Rachel above, in probably the same way that people initially felt about writing. In other words, I'm more of a Thamus than a Theuth. How about you?
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